Day 15: Maintaining Weight

Another great night's sleep, followed with a mid afternoon nap for an encore have me feeling really good. I did notice that I was slightly swollen after each bout of sleeping. This quickly went away after a little icing.

I feel like I'm at a standstill with the recovering. I haven't had any noticeable changes in the last couple of days. My speech might be the only thing improving at this point-that I can tell. My bones may very well be healing and making improvements with each day, but without an x-ray I have no way of knowing this. Otherwise, I still have all the same issues: numbness, coughing up blood, little headaches, bloody nose, and random tingling.

I weighed myself today and have maintained my weight since the last time I weighed. I weighed in at 171 lbs. This is the lightest I think I have been since my early high school years. Being able to "eat" cheesecake has really helped with this. I am able to get so many Calories from it. I'm not eating it all the time, but I am having about a piece or two a day. I've also been eating a lot of noodles from the Asian/Italian Sides packages from the store. These make for great meals that are relatively Calorie dense.

I had my first beer since the surgery last night. I had a pint, but it was more like a stein, of Boulevard Wheat. My friend and I figured one beer wouldn't hurt, and it didn't, but I could definitely feel it. Between not having one for a while, losing weight, and not having much in my stomach, these all made me quite vulnerable to the drink's effects. By no means was I drunk after this one beer but I could feel a lot more than I usually would feel a beer. I can only imagine what the waitress was thinking as I ordered the beer with my mumbling.